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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Determined to See Fair Vote After Earthquakes, Turks Mobilize for May Election

Ballot papers are seen during the counting of votes in a re-run of the mayoral election at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, June 23, 2019. (Reuters)

Sensing the best chance yet to end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule in Türkiye, his opponents are mobilizing to make sure every ballot is counted in a May election and to guard against any tampering in what is expected to be a tight vote.

With the stakes so high, concerns about potential irregularities have been heightened by upheaval wrought by February's devastating earthquakes in the southeast, where some 50,000 people were killed and millions made homeless.

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